Petri Karonen is a professor of Finnish history at the University of Jyväskylä, Finland. His research interests include Finnish and economic history in general, focusing on the shared history of Sweden and Finland in the early modern period. His publications include a general history of the Swedish realm 1520–1809: Great Power of the North (in Finnish) and studies concerning the history of historiography.Miia Kuha is a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Jyväskylä, Finland. She is currently working in her own project on 17th-century clergymen’s wives and widows, funded by the Academy of Finland. She has published articles on the historiography of cultural history in Sweden and Finland, the local history tradition in Finland, and lived religion in early modern Eastern Finnish parish communities.

• PART IPremises and preconditions of research and publishing 1 Introduction: comparing Swedish and Finnish historiographies on the early modern Swedish realm MIIA KUHA AND PETRI KARONEN2 Research on early modern Sweden: resources, research areas, and prominent scholars, 1850–2020 PETRI KARONENPART IIInstitutions and interactions 3 Early modern Swedish state-building in Swedish and Finnish historiography ANTTI RÄIHÄ4 Joint wars – diverging interpretations: the period 1523–1809 in Swedish and Finnish military history LARS ERICSON WOLKE AND NILS ERIK VILLSTRAND5 The rise and fall of the Swedish Empire: causes and explanations PETRI KARONEN6 Church history of the Swedish realm, 1520–1809 ANDERS JARLERT AND JOONAS TAMMELAPART IIIPeople and livelihoods 7 The Finnish and Swedish historiography of the early modern Swedish patriarchal estate society: individuals, social groups,household, and gender in dissertations, 1850–2020 PETTERI IMPOLA8 Histories of the free peasant in Finnish and Swedish historical research, ca. 1800–1980 PETTERI NORRING9 United and divided: early modern economic history in Finnish and Swedish academic literature KERSTIN ENFLO, JARI OJALA AND JAN-PETER GUSTAFSSONPART IVHistory culture and historical awareness 10 Birkarl origins in Finnish and Swedish historical research and history culture, ca. 1857–1917 SAMU SARVIAHO11 The Age of Liberty divide: representations in Swedish historical research, ca. 1870–1970 DANIEL ANDERSSON12 Cultural–historical approaches in Finnish and Swedish early modern research MIIA KUHA

Petri Karonen is a professor of Finnish history at the University of Jyväskylä, Finland. His research interests include Finnish and economic history in general, focusing on the shared history of Sweden and Finland in the early modern period. His publications include a general history of the Swedish realm 1520–1809: Great Power of the North (in Finnish) and studies concerning the history of historiography.Miia Kuha is a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Jyväskylä, Finland. She is currently working in her own project on 17th-century clergymen’s wives and widows, funded by the Academy of Finland. She has published articles on the historiography of cultural history in Sweden and Finland, the local history tradition in Finland, and lived religion in early modern Eastern Finnish parish communities.

• PART IPremises and preconditions of research and publishing 1 Introduction: comparing Swedish and Finnish historiographies on the early modern Swedish realm MIIA KUHA AND PETRI KARONEN2 Research on early modern Sweden: resources, research areas, and prominent scholars, 1850–2020 PETRI KARONENPART IIInstitutions and interactions 3 Early modern Swedish state-building in Swedish and Finnish historiography ANTTI RÄIHÄ4 Joint wars – diverging interpretations: the period 1523–1809 in Swedish and Finnish military history LARS ERICSON WOLKE AND NILS ERIK VILLSTRAND5 The rise and fall of the Swedish Empire: causes and explanations PETRI KARONEN6 Church history of the Swedish realm, 1520–1809 ANDERS JARLERT AND JOONAS TAMMELAPART IIIPeople and livelihoods 7 The Finnish and Swedish historiography of the early modern Swedish patriarchal estate society: individuals, social groups,household, and gender in dissertations, 1850–2020 PETTERI IMPOLA8 Histories of the free peasant in Finnish and Swedish historical research, ca. 1800–1980 PETTERI NORRING9 United and divided: early modern economic history in Finnish and Swedish academic literature KERSTIN ENFLO, JARI OJALA AND JAN-PETER GUSTAFSSONPART IVHistory culture and historical awareness 10 Birkarl origins in Finnish and Swedish historical research and history culture, ca. 1857–1917 SAMU SARVIAHO11 The Age of Liberty divide: representations in Swedish historical research, ca. 1870–1970 DANIEL ANDERSSON12 Cultural–historical approaches in Finnish and Swedish early modern research MIIA KUHA

Petri Karonen is a professor of Finnish history at the University of Jyväskylä, Finland. His research interests include Finnish and economic history in general, focusing on the shared history of Sweden and Finland in the early modern period. His publications include a general history of the Swedish realm 1520–1809: Great Power of the North (in Finnish) and studies concerning the history of historiography.Miia Kuha is a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Jyväskylä, Finland. She is currently working in her own project on 17th-century clergymen’s wives and widows, funded by the Academy of Finland. She has published articles on the historiography of cultural history in Sweden and Finland, the local history tradition in Finland, and lived religion in early modern Eastern Finnish parish communities.

• PART IPremises and preconditions of research and publishing 1 Introduction: comparing Swedish and Finnish historiographies on the early modern Swedish realm MIIA KUHA AND PETRI KARONEN2 Research on early modern Sweden: resources, research areas, and prominent scholars, 1850–2020 PETRI KARONENPART IIInstitutions and interactions 3 Early modern Swedish state-building in Swedish and Finnish historiography ANTTI RÄIHÄ4 Joint wars – diverging interpretations: the period 1523–1809 in Swedish and Finnish military history LARS ERICSON WOLKE AND NILS ERIK VILLSTRAND5 The rise and fall of the Swedish Empire: causes and explanations PETRI KARONEN6 Church history of the Swedish realm, 1520–1809 ANDERS JARLERT AND JOONAS TAMMELAPART IIIPeople and livelihoods 7 The Finnish and Swedish historiography of the early modern Swedish patriarchal estate society: individuals, social groups,household, and gender in dissertations, 1850–2020 PETTERI IMPOLA8 Histories of the free peasant in Finnish and Swedish historical research, ca. 1800–1980 PETTERI NORRING9 United and divided: early modern economic history in Finnish and Swedish academic literature KERSTIN ENFLO, JARI OJALA AND JAN-PETER GUSTAFSSONPART IVHistory culture and historical awareness 10 Birkarl origins in Finnish and Swedish historical research and history culture, ca. 1857–1917 SAMU SARVIAHO11 The Age of Liberty divide: representations in Swedish historical research, ca. 1870–1970 DANIEL ANDERSSON12 Cultural–historical approaches in Finnish and Swedish early modern research MIIA KUHA